Multispecies coexistence of trees in tropical forests: spatial signals of topographic niche differentiation increase with environmental heterogeneity-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Multispecies coexistence of trees in tropical forests: spatial signals of topographic niche differentiation increase with environmental heterogeneity

Published:2013-08-07 Issue:1764 Volume:280 Page:20130502
ISSN:0962-8452
Container-title:Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
language:en
Short-container-title:Proc. R. Soc. B.

Author:

Brown C.¹²,Burslem D. F. R. P.³,Illian J. B.²,Bao L.⁴,Brockelman W.⁵,Cao M.⁶,Chang L. W.⁷,Dattaraja H. S.⁸,Davies S.⁹¹⁰,Gunatilleke C. V. S.¹¹,Gunatilleke I. A. U. N.¹¹,Huang J.¹²,Kassim A. R.¹³,LaFrankie J. V.¹⁴,Lian J.¹²,Lin L.⁶,Ma K.⁴,Mi X.⁴,Nathalang A.⁵,Noor S.¹³,Ong P.¹⁴,Sukumar R.⁸,Su S. H.⁷,Sun I. F.¹⁵,Suresh H. S.⁸,Tan S.¹⁶,Thompson J.¹⁷¹⁸,Uriarte M.¹⁹,Valencia R.²⁰,Yap S. L.¹⁴,Ye W.¹²,Law R.²¹

Affiliation:

1. School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh, Drummond Street, Edinburgh EH8 9XP, UK

2. CREEM, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St Andrews, The Observatory, Buchanan Gardens, St Andrews KY16 9LZ, UK

3. Institute of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Cruickshank Building, St Machar Drive, Aberdeen AB24 3UU, UK

4. State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 20 Nanxincun, Xiangshan, Beijing 100093, People's Republic of China

5. Ecology Laboratory, BIOTEC Central Research Unit, 113 Thailand Science Park, Paholyothin Road, Klong 1, Klongluang, Pathum Thani 12120, Thailand

6. Key Laboratory of Tropical Forest Ecology, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650223, People's Republic of China

7. Taiwan Forestry Research Institute, Taipei 10066, Taiwan, Republic of China

8. Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India

9. Center for Tropical Forest Science, Arnold Arboretum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA

10. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, PO Box 0843-03092, Balboa Ancón, Panama, Republic of Panama

11. Department of Botany, University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya 20400, Sri Lanka

12. South China Botany Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510650, People's Republic of China

13. Forest Ecology Unit, Forest Environment Division, Forest Research Institute Malaysia, Kepong, 52109 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

14. Institute of Biology, University of the Philippines Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines

15. Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Studies, National Dong Hwa University, Hualien 974, Taiwan, Republic of China

16. Forest Department Sarawak, Bangunan Wisma Sumber Alam, Jalan Stadium, Petra Jaya 93660, Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia

17. Institute of Tropical Ecosystem Studies, University of Puerto Rico, PO Box 1690, Luquillo, PR 00773, USA

18. Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Bush Estate, Midlothian, Penicuik EH26 0QB, UK

19. Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA

20. Laboratory of Plant Ecology, School of Biological Sciences, Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador, Apartado 17-01-2184, Quito, Ecuador

21. York Centre for Complex Systems Analysis and Biology Department, Ron Cooke Hub, University of York, PO Box 373, York YO10 5EG, UK

Abstract

Neutral and niche theories give contrasting explanations for the maintenance of tropical tree species diversity. Both have some empirical support, but methods to disentangle their effects have not yet been developed. We applied a statistical measure of spatial structure to data from 14 large tropical forest plots to test a prediction of niche theory that is incompatible with neutral theory: that species in heterogeneous environments should separate out in space according to their niche preferences. We chose plots across a range of topographic heterogeneity, and tested whether pairwise spatial associations among species were more variable in more heterogeneous sites. We found strong support for this prediction, based on a strong positive relationship between variance in the spatial structure of species pairs and topographic heterogeneity across sites. We interpret this pattern as evidence of pervasive niche differentiation, which increases in importance with increasing environmental heterogeneity.

Publisher

The Royal Society

Subject

General Agricultural and Biological Sciences,General Environmental Science,General Immunology and Microbiology,General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology,General Medicine

Link

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rspb.2013.0502

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